Training plays a crucial role in strengthening health systems by ensuring that healthcare providers are equipped with the latest knowledge and skills necessary to deliver quality care. This in turn improves healthcare outcomes for communities. Recognizing this importance, Muso regularly organizes training for health care providers, whether at the community level or clinic level.
In Q2, the Muso Learning & Innovation and Monitoring & Evaluation teams organized two training courses for health care professionals in the aim to, not only support their professional development, but contribute to overall health system resilience and the delivery of comprehensive healthcare services. Read more about these trainings below.
Learning and Innovation An essential component of Muso’s three-step intervention is dedicated supervision. Dedicated supervisors provide regular performance management support for Community Health Workers through Muso’s 360° Supervision model, which has been found to achieve significant improvements in the speed, quality, and coverage of care over time. On average, CHWs that are provided dedicated supervision facilitated with a performance management dashboard reached 78% more home visits per month, increase their speed of care by 20%, and increase quality of care by 33%.
To address the challenges faced by dedicated supervisors in carrying out their duties over the past year and conduct their re-accreditation process, Muso’s Learning and Innovation team organized a capacity-building training workshop in Q2. Approximately 20 supervisors and substitute supervisors participated in the workshop, where they engaged in identifying and discussing the technical challenges inherent in their roles. These challenges include difficulties in accessing extremely remote areas and addressing challenges encountered by patients at health
centers once they are referred by CHWs.
The training encompassed a thorough refresher course on 360° Supervision, focusing on essential stages and strategies to improve supervision practices. Furthermore, it included detailed discussions on community follow-up of tuberculosis cases and monitoring vaccinations for
children under 23 months.
Following the six-day training session, participants and trainers collaborated on practical solutions to address identified technical challenges. These included initiatives to revitalize the community approach through Community Health Associations (ASACO) in remote and hard-to-reach areas. Moreover, Supervisors established specific personal goals for continuous professional development, focusing on group management, community follow-up of tuberculosis, and monitoring vaccination of children under 23 months, amongst other objectives.
Dedicated supervisors play a pivotal role in ensuring rapid and quality care within Muso’s served communities. With ongoing training and support, Muso remains steadfast in its commitment to transforming health systems from the community level.
Monitoring and Evaluation
To better assess the mortality of children under 5 and rapid access to care for children and pregnant women, Muso's Monitoring & Evaluation team organized a training workshop for enumerators in Q2 at the Yirimadio CSCOM (Community Health Center), focusing on assessing
mortality among children under 5, and ensuring rapid access to care among pregnant women and children under 5. The week-long session aimed to enhance the enumerators' skills in data collection, specifically in evaluating early access to care and survival rates among children under 5 years old and pregnant women.
The workshop featured comprehensive training through practical exercises, theoretical modules, and instruction on data collection methods, including the use of the digital data collection tool KOBO Collect and specific survey questionnaires. Enumerators were trained in household
selection criteria, the administration of consent and assent forms, and the management of digital questionnaires. Furthermore, the workshop aimed to assess the impact, coverage, and sustainability of rapid care on early care and infant mortality.
A total of 30 dedicated enumerators and six supervisors, recruited specifically for this project, benefited from this intensive training, significantly enhancing their ability to conduct high-quality and accurate assessments within communities.
By deepening the understanding of early healthcare access and child survival strategies, Muso aims for enumerators to continue driving positive change within their communities through accurate data interpretation. Muso remains committed to improving maternal and child health through robust and effective evaluation methods. This effort contributes to informing future programs and improving health outcomes both within Muso's intervention areas and beyond.
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